James Hughes - Stalin, Communism - Books
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This book makes an important contribution to the current re-evalu-
ation of the origins of Stalinism. Although it is widely acknowledged
by Western scholars that the Soviet grain crisis of 1927-8 and Stalin's
Siberian tour of January 1928 were crucial factors in the decision to
abandon the New Economic Policy (NEP) and return to a more
ideologically rigid policy of collectivisation and rapid industrialis-
ation, studies have hitherto concentrated on the role of leading per-
sonalities and 'high polities'. In this book, Dr James Hughes presents
an in-depth examination of the crisis of the NEP from the regional
perspective of Siberia and analyses the events and pressures 'from
below', at the grassroots level of Soviet society.
Using publications of the Siberian party and statistical investi-
gations of the countryside, Dr Hughes offers new insights into several
largely uncharted features of the Soviet system in these years. These
include party-peasant relations, the kulak question, Stalin's patron-
client network in the provinces, the regional impact of the grain crisis
and the use of emergency measures to overcome the crisis. The
author concludes that Stalin's experience of conditions which were
unique to Siberia accelerated his negative reappraisal of the NEP and
initiated the descent into the cataclysm of his 'revolution from above'
in late 1929.
Stalin, Siberia and the crisis of the New Economic Policy
will be widely
read by specialists and students of Soviet history, with special refer-
ence to the economic and social history of the 1920s, regional policy
under the NEP, and the background to collectivisation.
STALIN, SIBERIA AND THE CRISIS OF THE NEW
ECONOMIC POLICY
Soviet and East European Studies: 81
Editorial Board
Stephen White
(General editor)
Judy Batt Michael Kaser Anthony Kemp-Welsh Margot Light
Alastair McAuley James Riordan Judith Shapiro
Soviet and East European Studies,
under the auspices of Cambridge
University Press and the British Association for Soviet, Slavonic
and East European Studies
(BASSEES),
promotes the publication of
works presenting substantial and original research on the
economics, politics, sociology and modern history of the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe.
Soviet and East European Studies
81 JAMES HUGHES
Stalin, Siberia and the crisis of the New Economic Policy
80 ILIANA ZLOCH-CHRISTY
East-West financial relations
Current problems and future prospects
79 MICHAEL D. KENNEDY
Professionals, power and Solidarity in Poland
A critical sociology of Soviet-type society
78 GARETH M. WINROW
The foreign policy of the GDR in Africa
77
JOZEF M VAN BRABANT
The planned economies and international economic
organizations
76 WILLIAM MOSKOFF
The bread of affliction: the food supply in the USSR during
World War II
75 YAACOV RO'l
The struggle for Soviet-Jewish emigration 1948-1967
74 GRAEME GILL
The origins of the Stalinist political system
73 SANTOSH K. MEHROTRA
India and the Soviet Union: trade and technology transfer
72 ILYA PRIZEL
Latin America through Soviet eyes
The evolution of Soviet perceptions during the Brezhnev era 1964-1982
71 ROBERT G. PATMAN
The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa
The diplomacy of intervention and disengagement
70 IVAN T. BEREND
The Hungarian economic reforms 1953-1988
69 CHRIS WARD
Russia's cotton workers and the New Economic Policy
Shop-floor culture and state policy 1921-1929
68 LASZLO CSABA
Eastern Europe in the world economy
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STALIN, SIBERIA AND
THE CRISIS OF THE
NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
JAMES HUGHES
University of Keele
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